What's Behind the Health Expenditure Trends?

DataWatch International Health Care Expenditure Trends: 1987

The Place of Health Insurance in Reducing Catastrophic Health Expenditure

This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into five groups from private hospitals to charity ones. The data used herein was extracted from ...

Health Expenditure Trends in OECD Countries, 1970-1997

This article provides an overview of current trends in health expenditures in 29 OECD countries and recent revisions of OECD health accounts. U.S. health expenditures are compared with those of other OECD countries. The interactions of cost-containment measures with changes in the public-private mix of financing and in the composition of health care spending are discussed.

Health Expenditure Trends in OECD Countries, 1990-2001

This article presents data on health care spending for 30 OECD countries from OECD Health Data 2003, the latest edition of OECD's annual data collection on health systems across industrialized countries. OECD data show health care expenditures as a proportion of gross domestic product at an all-time high, due to both increased expenditures and overall economic slow-down. The article discusses s...

Trends in catastrophic health expenditure in India: 1993 to 2014

Objective To investigate trends in out-of-pocket health-care payments and catastrophic health expenditure in India by household age composition. Methods We obtained data from four national consumer expenditure surveys and three health-care utilization surveys conducted between 1993 and 2014. Households were divided into five groups by age composition. We defined catastrophic health expenditur...